>Quite true, also very different from the claim I was responding to.
Not really, you just quoted one part and are acting as though that's my entire claim. If you're just going to strawman my arguments here then, fuck it, I don't want to talk to you. Like I said, it's circumstantial evidence, since their cooperation would have come after the Snowden documents were released, but it's still evidence. We know they're being targeted, they have people on their board who love this shit, and their silence - in stark contrast to most other PRISM targets - is deafening. Again, this isn't a court of law, the burden of proof is lower, and if you're not open about what you're doing, then it isn't unreasonable to assume you're in bed with the bad guys.
This isn't birther or truther or whatever else, conspiracy theory territory. I'm not making any leaps of tortured logic here, so don't paint me with the same brush. It's pretty straightforward and at any rate, all I said initially is that they hand over data to the US government. You appear to agree with me on this after all, you're just giving them more benefit of the doubt with regard to their level of cooperation.
Just to be clear, let's draw a distinction between mere complying with NSLs to the extent required by the law, and cooperating with the NSA on these illegal spying programs. They are not the same thing, and Dropbox is likely doing the latter. Yes, they certainly receive NSLs like anyone else, and some level of cooperation is required by law, but they are also likely to be designing their systems with ease of access for the NSA in mind. It is not unreasonable to think the NSA has automatic access to their data. Other PRISM targets have been pretty open (at least in comparison to Dropbox) about what their cooperation entails, what they are required to do, and what steps they take to safeguard their data. Dropbox has been utterly silent, and that's the most damning thing. Perhaps this would not be a fair conclusion to draw, had they not made the utterly stupid and incomprehensible decision to allow Condoleezza Rice to join their board of directors, but they did, and it is.
No, you are foolish if you think Dropbox is not giving their customer data to the NSA. That's nothing but wishful thinking. Absolutely foolish and naive. Much more so than if, in 2012, you thought the NSA wasn't snooping on emails, et cetera. At least back then the scale of what they are up to would have been something of an extraordinary claim - that's not the case anymore.